Your best resource for Canada geese control in the Central Chesapeake Bay Area

Maryland Goose Patrol provides an effective, environmentally friendly wildlife management
service to safely and humanely rid your property of nuisance resident and migratory
Canada geese. Through repetitive canine patrols we direct our trained Border Collies/Kelpies
to chase the geese away. If the geese go to water we continue the effort until the
geese are gone. This form of goose control, known as harassment or hazing, does not
harm the birds, but disturbs them so they leave to forage, roost and nest elsewhere.
This technique can also be used to reduce other unwanted bird populations such as
coots, ducks or even wild turkeys.

As no chemicals, traps or harmful techniques are used, Federal or State permits are
not required for our work. When geese cannot fly due to injury or are without flight
feathers as goslings and during annual molt as adults, canine hazing is curtailed.

Unlike other harassment efforts that fail to scare or keep geese away, geese view
the dogs as natural predators and learn to stay clear. The dogs do not bark at the
geese, but work like a predator, with stealth, speed and vigilance. Our dogs are
always accompanied by a handler and never simply dropped off and left to work on
their own.

The most effective strategy to reduce the Canada goose population at your facility
is to apply predator pressure through daily canine patrols. If the geese population
is heavily engrained, we may initially perform two or three canine patrols a day
to disrupt their feeding pattern. As geese that had once been accustomed to calmly
foraging on your property realize their feeding site has predators they leave to
find safer grounds. We term this period the clearing phase.

When geese flying overhead do not see geese below they stay aloft and continue on
to other feeding sites. While some geese may drop in, these newcomers do not have
a long-term association with the site and are readily dispersed by our patrols. At
this point we enter the maintenance phase and are able to reduce the frequency of
patrols. It varies by location and time of year, but maintenance work typically entails
three to five canine patrols per week.

We service greater Anne Arundel & Prince George’s counties as well as the District of Columbia. Please call for a no-cost geese hazing demonstration. MGP is friendly, reliable and insured.

Egg Addling Service

MGP also provides a spring-time egg addling and nest removal service to further reduce the resident goose population. Call for details.

Maryland Goose Patrol is an owner-operated nuisance goose control company located in Edgewater, MD. Along with their goose control dog Rain, Eric and Colleen Shannon can help you take back your fairways, ponds, beaches, agricultural fields, parks & lawns,and sidewalks!